Category Archives: Geek

Bookmarklet to add Torrents to Transmission from your iPhone

I have long been looking for a way to easily add a Torrent file to my Bittorrent client when out and about. Obviously the iPhone is a great solution for this but due to restrictions in Apple’s walled-garden they tend … Continue reading

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Unbelievably Useful Firefox Tip

This one is definitely for Geeks only! For those of you who browse the Internet using Mozilla Firefox, I just discovered a really useful little tip. If have just visited a link and realise that the previous page was also … Continue reading

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How d’you like them Apples?

My colleague Chris returned from a business trip to the US today bringing me this little beauty. I loved my iPod Photo until it was unfortunately stolen out of my bag on my trip to Mongolia back in July. Since … Continue reading

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Batch Adjusting the EXIF Time & Date data in your Digital Photos

Have you ever had the problem of going on holiday to a different time zone, and on your return discovering that you forgot to set your digital camera to the local time in the country you visited? This can be … Continue reading

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Shareaza 2.2 P2P Filesharing Tool Released

After a year of development the latest version of P2P tool Shareaza has been released. Shareaza is a Windows–based peer-to-peer client which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, eDonkey Network, and BitTorrent network protocols. It is free, open source, and contains no … Continue reading

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Plaxo connects Thunderbird, Yahoo & AOL/AIM

Plaxo is an contact management service that helps yout to keep all your online address books updated and in sync with one another. Additionally, it also can synchronise your calendar, notes and tasks so that they are available wherever you go. I have been using it for the last few years primarily to keep my home and work address books in sync, and find it increbibly useful as a backup tool.

Until recently it existed as a web based service, and also had plugins for Outlook and Outlook Express, but they have now begun to expand their reach onto other platforms. Continue reading

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